Word: triennial
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seniors will be guests at a Triennial luncheon at 12:45 p.m., with alumnae from the third and sixth anniversary classes of 1943 and 1946. Alumnae reunions in Agassiz House are scheduled all afternoon and all returning graduates will attend the formal opening of Founder's House at 6 Appian Way and President and Mrs. W. K. Jordan's alumnae tea in the afternoon...
Then, at the triennial general convention in Philadelphia last fall (TIME, Sept. 23), the canon was "liberalized." Under the new rules, divorced church members who wanted to be remarried in the church could apply to the bishop of the diocese after one year, and the bishop could decide, under certain specific conditions, that the remarriage was justifiable. As a brake on the possibly sentimental leanings of individual bishops, a commission was set up to review (but not reverse) the bishops' decisions, and assemble a body of precedents...
...record of the 55th triennial convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church had been better than many a pessimistic liberal churchman had expected. Merger with the Presbyterians was still distant. But delegates at Philadelphia had hammered out a brand-new marriage canon (TIME, Sept. 23). And they had elected without delay a top-drawer, liberal Presiding Bishop...
...easygoing start, the 55th triennial convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church warmed up to a lively boil. In Philadelphia last week the subject in the 150-man House of Bishops was Divorce. In the 700-man* House of Deputies it was Union. The Most Rev. and Rt. Hon. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, had come from England to watch the proceedings. Presiding over the House of Bishops was the Episcopal Church's nearest equivalent (it was not very near) to the Primate of All England: the Most Rev. Henry St. George Tucker, Presiding Bishop of the Church since...
...bigwigs and littlewigs of the Protestant Episcopal Church gathered in Philadelphia this week for their triennial General Convention, one issue overshadowed all others: a proposal for union with the Presbyterians. Into the high-church v. low-church debate on that issue, the undenominational but ecumenical-minded Christian Century cast an all-out editorial. Excerpts...